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Product Identifiers
PublisherPegasus Books
ISBN-101605984973
ISBN-139781605984971
eBay Product ID (ePID)160029892
Product Key Features
Book TitleFirst of July
Number of Pages352 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2013
TopicWar & Military, Literary, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorElizabeth Speller
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight20 oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsPraise for the novels of Elizabeth SpellerSpeller combines a Ruth Rendell-like psychological realism and a Dickensian feel for life's roulette., Utterly gripping and completely immersing. As the war progresses, the soldier's stories converge in a pointillist portrait of the trench-riddled landscape and those upon whose frail shoulders the battle depends. Gritty, disturbing, moody, and intensely real, the novel's psychological impact is like those of Mary Doria Russell's A Thread of Grace and Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke and asks readers to consider war's high costs. Great book-club fare., Utterly gripping and completely immersing. As the war progresses, the soldier's stories converge in a pointillist portraitof the trench-riddled landscape and those upon whose frail shoulders the battle depends. Gritty, disturbing,moody, and intensely real, the novel's psychological impact is like those of Mary Doria Russell's AThread of Grace and Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke and asks readers to consider war'shigh costs. Great book-club fare., World War I history buffs will enjoy this mystery, as will fans of period pieces. Readers who like Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series will savor this novel., Utterly gripping and completely immersing. As the war progresses, the soldier's stories converge in a pointillist portrait of the trench-riddled landscape and those upon whose frail shoulders the battle depends. Gritty, disturbing, moody, and intensely real, the novel's psychological impact is like those of Mary Doria Russell's A Thread of Grace and Denis Johnson's Tree of Smoke and asks readers to consider war's high costs. Great book-club fare., WorldWar I history buffs will enjoy this mystery, as will fans of periodpieces. Readers who like Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs series willsavor this novel.
Dewey Decimal823.92
SynopsisThis new novel from Elizabeth Speller tells the poignant and redemptive tale of the tragedies of war, as lives cross, dreams are shattered, and futures altered as the hours pass on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.On July 1st, 1913, four very different men are leading four very different lives. Exactly three years later, it is just after seven in the morning, and there are a few seconds of peace as the guns on the Somme fall silent and larks soar across the battlefield, singing as they fly over the trenches. What follows is a day of catastrophe in which Allied casualties number almost one hundred thousand. A horror that would have been unimaginable in pre-war Europe and England becomes a day of reckoning, where their lives will change forever, for Frank, Benedict, Jean-Batiste, and Harry.Elizabeth Speller once again sublimely captures the dangerously romantic atmosphere of war-torn Europe in her latest novel that will leave critics and readers astounded., On July 1st, 1913, four very different men are leading four very different lives. Exactly three years later, it is just after seven in the morning, and there are a few seconds of peace as the guns on the Somme fall silent and larks soar across the battlefield, singing as they fly over the trenches. What follows is a day of catastrophe in which Allied casualties number almost one hundred thousand. A horror that would have been unimaginable in pre-war Europe and England becomes a day of reckoning, where their lives will change forever, for Frank, Benedict, Jean-Batiste, and Harry. Elizabeth Speller once again sublimely captures the dangerously romantic atmosphere of war-torn Europe in her latest novel that will leave critics and readers astounded., A captivating novel of the tragedies of war, as lives cross, dreams are shattered, and futures altered as the hours pass during the first day of the Battle of the Somme.
LC Classification NumberPR6119.P39F57 2015
